Katherine Aske

Katherine Aske is a Lecturer of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Her research examines understandings and moral associations of female beauty in the literature and cultural history of the long eighteenth century, and is currently working on the...

Romana Sammern

Romana Sammern is an art historian and permanent research scholar at the University of Salzburg. She researches and teaches at the intersection of the body, art, cosmetics, and medicine in the early modern period, with relevance to the present. She received her PhD...

Erin Griffey

Erin Griffey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She is a specialist in early modern visual and material culture with an interest in adornment and display. Her current research relates to...

Sarah Pickman

    I am an early career historian with an interest in material culture, extreme environments, bodily and psychological comfort, and colonialism in the long nineteenth-century Anglophone world. I earned my BA in Anthropology with a minor in Art History at...

Alicia Schult

  With over 30 years of experience, Alicia Schult is an expert in the history of receipts, apothecaries, cosmetics, alchemy, and historical clothing. As the owner and founder of LBCC Historical Apothecary, she has dedicated her life to bringing to light lost and...